Preventing plating and soldering voids is about testing new manufacturing processes and analyzing the results. Plating and soldering voids usually have an identifiable cause, such as the type of ...

Using a toaster oven to reflow PCBs isn’t anything new, but just using a toaster oven has some limitations. Making toast isn’t as complex as reflowing PCBs. [Nabil] decided to modify an oven to get ...

This project, sent in by [Henk], goes through a few different ways to make a solder stencil using a vinyl cutter, a CO2 laser, and a fiber laser. The project starts with identifying a method to ...

Component manufacturers are continually developing new and smaller packages for components that are mere fractions of a millimeter and have board to component clearances of less than a mil. Pick and ...

Terrell, Texas-based Conecsus LLC says it will exhibit at the SMTA Juarez Expo & Tech Forum April 6, 2017, at the event in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The company says it will be displaying how it ...